About Me

I am retired from the Uni. of Queensland, and have numerous interests inside and outside of the uni. I play classical, bluegrass, country and folk guitar (hows that for a mix?) I am a member of the Australian Labor Party and am currently branch secretary of the Mt Coot-tha branch. I'm also involved in developing virtual reality builds and websites. Never bored!

Friday, May 20, 2016

Time for a change?

Well, it didn't take too long
for the Coalition to sink to the bottom, did it?The positive messages of "Jobs and
Growth" seem to have sunk without trace.And they opened up Mr Abbott's box of tricks and found:greed, fear, and blatant racism.

The greed card was played in
the budget, the fear card has been played with the "strong borders"
mantra, and the racism card, which lurked under both the former, is now being
played as a sort of trump.(Gawd, should
that be capitalised?)The Coalition is
pleased to bring you Greed, Fear and Racism as their new three word
slogan.

Of course, it will be spun
much more neatly than that by the masters of verbal prestidigitation who are
paid vast sums to keep the princes of industry and their hangers-on safe from
the masses.The words will certainly
change; the messages will not.

In the meantime, no new
policies have been announced by the caretaker government.It's now on full attack mode against Labor,
who has not only been leading the policy debate, but in fact set the whole
agenda.Is it panic stations for the
Coalition, or are they just reverting to form?As the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett wrote: "Can a leopard change
its shorts?"

We have another 6 weeks to go
in the campaign.Watch for more dirty
tricks and subtle assassinations by the Coalition henchpeople.The latest is the raiding of a Labor
senator's office by the AFP seeking evidence of leaks against the NBN.The caretaker government has said "It
weren't us; purely a police matter".Could be.But one might ask, who
put up the NBN executives up to it?Does
anyone smell something of rodent?